It’s been about six months since PG and E started transitioning customers to its new Time-of-Use rate plan. The idea is to get residents to use less energy during the peak period, which is 4 to 9pm, when rates will be higher. Utility spokesperson Brandi Merlo says around four-thousand customers in Nevada County had the option, starting in April, of joining the plan right away, instead of waiting as long as two more years. She says around 24-hundred said “yes”. Customers have still had the option to go back to their old rate plan until April of next year if they didn’t like the new billing…